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RUMPHIUS'S HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE 



EURYCLES Salisbury 



EURYCLES AM BOI N ENSIS (Linn.) Lindl. in Loud. Encycl. PI. (1829) 



242. 



Pancratium amboinense Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 291. 



Pancratium narbonense Linn, in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 28 

 (type!). 



Amaryllis rotundifolia Lam. Encycl. 1 (1783) 124. 



Eurycles silvestris Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. 1 (1812) 337. 



Cepa silvestris Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 160, t. 70, f. 1. 



This widely distributed, well-known, characteristic species is 

 not represented in our Amboina collections. Linnaeus, in Stick- 

 man Herb. Amb. (1754) 28, first reduced Cepa silvestris Rumph. 

 to Pancratium narbonense Linn. ; this name, apparently a lapsus 

 calami for P. amboinense, is not listed in Index Kewensis and, 

 being based wholly on Rumphius, thus becomes a synonym of 

 Eurycles amboinensis Lindl. In the reprint of Stickman's 

 paper, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 136, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 976, Sp. 

 PL ed. 2 (1762) 419, it is properly placed under Pancratium 

 amboinense lAxm=Eurycles amboinensis Lindl. Willdenow, 

 Sp. PL 2 (1799) 47, cites it under Crinum nervosum L'Herit. ; 

 and other authors cite it under Amaryllis rotundifolia Lam., 

 Eurycles coronata Salisb., E. nervosa Roem., and E. silvestris 

 Salisb. — all synonyms of E. amboinensis (Linn.) Lindl. 



CURCULIGO Gaertner 

 CURCULIGO ORCHOIDES Gaertn. Fruct. 1 (1788) 63, t. 16. 

 Curculigo rumphiana Schultes Syst. 7 2 (1830) 757 (type!). 

 Orchis amboinica major II Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 117, t. 5£. f. 1. 



Amboina, Batoe gadjah, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 128, August 5, 1913, 

 on open hillsides, altitude about 150 meters. 



Orchis amboinica major II, as described and figured by 

 Rumphius, was cited by Gaertner in the original description of 

 Curculigo orchoides Gaertn. as a synonym of his species, and 

 the Amboina specimen cited above agrees with the species as 

 currently interpreted. Most authors have followed Gaertner 

 in this reduction, but Schultes,- in a discussion following the 

 description of Curculigo orchoides, considers the Rumphian 

 plant to represent a distinct species, which he called Curculigo 

 rumphiana Schultes and which was based wholly on the Rumph- 

 ian reference cited above. Curculigo rumphiana Schultes is 

 not listed in Index Kewensis, and I consider it to be merely a 

 synonym of the much older name, Curculigo orchoides Gaertn. 



CURCULIGO CAPITULATA (Lour.) O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. 1 (1891) 

 703. 



Leucojum capitulatum Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 199. 



